The long-awaited interview between former President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk left listeners waiting even longer.
Technical difficulties ended up taking over the spotlight as Trump’s “Space” crashed due to the number of X, formerly Twitter, users logging on to hear the interview.
Instead of hearing the interview, people were me with a four-word message — “This Space is unavailable.”
It remained unavailable for about 40 minutes.
In the meantime, Musk addressed the issue on X.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS [distributed denial-of-service] attack on X. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later,” Musk posted.
He then defended his social media platform by saying it was tested earlier.
Musk then added, “We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter.”
When the cobwebs cleared the the interview started, about 1 million X logged on.
In the meantime, both critics and supporters voiced their frustrations on X.
Some supporters blamed the Democrats.
Breaking Points co-host Saagar Enjeti likened this glitch to Trump’s appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention.
“Trump was fuming at the NABJ when their technical difficulties kept him waiting for 30 minutes Now he’s kept waiting again, and ofc a lot of the coverage is going to focus on the technical meltdown no matter what he says. He won’t be happy,”.
New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan mentioned Musk’s line earlier Monday when the billionaire posted Entertainment guaranteed!” referring to the interview.
“I’ll take functionality guaranteed!”
Critics also joined in.
According to X, the people still turned out.
“Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump’s Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump’s conversation on X, generating a total of 998 million views,” it posted.
The difficulties experienced Monday night happened before last year when Musk was set to interview Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on then-Twitter, per Fox News.
That interview, too, had technical malfunctions due to high “Spaces” traffic.
